Agricultural lands occupy a special place in the structure of urban lands. There are horticultural and gardening associations on these The “belts” surround large cities small settlements; dachas vegetable gardens play role individual subsidiary farms recreation areas. In Russia, area such is about 1.5 million hectares; Orenburg region - 18.7 thousand hectares. Studies show that ecosystems diffe...

Many of today's agricultural landscapes once held vast amounts of wetland habitat for waterbirds and other wildlife. Successful restoration of these landscapes relies on access to accurate maps of the wetlands that remain. We used C-band (5.6-cm-wavelength), HH-polarized radar remote sensing (RADARSAT) at a 38 degree incidence angle (8-m resolution) to map the distribution of winter shorebird (...

The adoption rate of winter cover crops (WCCs) as an effective conservation management practice to help reduce agricultural nutrient loads in the Chesapeake Bay (CB) is increasing. However, the WCC potential for water quality improvement has not been fully realized at the watershed scale. This study was conducted to evaluate the long-term impact of WCCs on hydrology and NO3-N loads in two adjac...

Leaf Water Content Index (LWCI) was proposed by Hunt, E. R. Jr., and et al (1987). At the beginning we tried and succeeded to develop this index for the practical application to the satellite remote sensing data such as Landsat TM. Next we performed vegetation monitoring using LWCI by SPOT Vegetation and we got same results. LWCI is not susceptible to influences from the atmospheric noise such ...